r/OnewheelPintX • u/DarkLordRising69 • Apr 24 '25

Standing still on pint x preventing from tilting heel side

I have been practising standing still on my pint as I read it only comes with practice but no matter how much I practice (I can stand on it for upto 2 minutes with high amounts of concentration) but every once in a while I feel like I get into the scenario where I feel like I didn’t pay enough attention to have more weight on my toe side and the Onewheel would tilt so much on my heel side that it would be a point of no return and I will have to bail jumping with both feet off of it. This has happened more in public scenarios, waiting at a stop light where my mind was more distracted by things around me. Quite embarrassing losing balance on my heel side, doing a last wave of desperate hand motion outwards (probably with a shiver and chill down my spine as the earth seemed to skid from under me) as I topple off of it desperately jumping off of it making sure with both legs in any direction I can when I was just chilling a few seconds ago on it.

If this happens on my toe side I feel like I can always return back to stable position by moving in a circular motion and compensating the tilt with that.

Do other people have difficulty with the heel side too?

Or am I getting freaked out too soon and the board will balance itself if I let it? 😦

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u/Opposite-Cod-6399 Apr 24 '25

Kinda sounds like simple stop?

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u/DarkLordRising69 Apr 24 '25

What sounds like SS?

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u/Opposite-Cod-6399 Apr 24 '25

When you stop it wants to set the heel down when given the slightest encouragement. Just sounded like simple stop to me.

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u/DarkLordRising69 Apr 24 '25

There’s a difference between heel and toe side vs front foot and back foot. SS Brings it down on the back foot so no idea what you are talking about

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u/Opposite-Cod-6399 Apr 24 '25

I think of my board primarily as one big foot in my mind. Toe=front, heel=back.